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Subject of Care
Feminist Perspectives on Dependency
Av Eva Feder Kittay, Ellen K. Feder
E-bok, 2003
779 kr
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All people spend a considerable portion of their lives either as dependents or the caretakers of dependents. The fact of human dependency-a function of youth, severe illness, disability, or frail old age-marks our lives, not only as those who are cared for, but as those who engage in the work of …
Relational Remembering
Rethinking the Memory Wars
Av Sue Campbell
E-bok, 2003
670 kr
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Tracing the impact of the "memory wars" on science and culture, Relational Remembering offers a vigorous philosophical challenge to the contemporary skepticism about memory that is their legacy. Campbell''s work provides a close conceptual analysis of the strategies used to challenge women''s …
Discovering Feminist Philosophy
Knowledge, Ethics, Politics
E-bok, 2003
469 kr
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Many people believe that gender equality has been achieved. In such a world, why dwell on the dualism between the sexes? Why separate, and therefore marginalize, women''s scholarship from scholarship as a whole? In short, why feminist philosophy? Discovering Feminist Philosophy provides an …
How Can I Be Trusted?
A Virtue Theory of Trustworthiness
Häftad, 2002
603 kr
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This work examines the concept of trust in the light of virtue theory, and takes our responsibility to be trustworthy as central. Rather than thinking of trust as risk-taking, Potter views it as equally a matter of responsibility-taking. How Can I Be Trusted? illustrates that relations of trust are …
Varieties of Feminist Liberalism
Av Amy R. Baehr
Häftad, 2004
788 kr
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Over the past thirty years, western political philosophy has been enriched by a renewed interest in liberalism, and by the development of feminism. Although liberalism is one of the important historical roots of feminism, many contemporary feminist political philosophers reject liberal political …
Pornography Embodied
From Speech to Sexual Practice
Häftad, 2004
587 kr
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What does it mean to conceptualize pornography as a material practice rather than as speech? Mason-Grant argues that this idea, fundamental to the work of Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon, has been obscured in legal wrangling and political polarization over their civil ordinance. Within the …
Gender Struggles
Practical Approaches to Contemporary Feminism
Av Constance L. Mui, Julien S. Murphy
Häftad, 2002
603 kr
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Contemporary feminist theory and postmodernism have left significant marks on how we think about practical matters, most notably the old and new forms of gender struggles that many women confront in their daily lives. The essays collected in Gender Struggles are designed to highlight those …
Subject of Care
Feminist Perspectives on Dependency
Av Eva Feder Kittay, Ellen K. Feder
Häftad, 2003
717 kr
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All people spend a considerable portion of their lives either as dependents or the caretakers of dependents. The fact of human dependency—a function of youth, severe illness, disability, or frail old age—marks our lives, not only as those who are cared for, but as those who engage in the work of …
Philosopher Queen
Feminist Essays on War, Love, and Knowledge
Av Chris Cuomo
Häftad, 2002
547 kr
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The Philosopher Queen is a collection of essays and monologues addressing deep questions about gender, race, science, and global politics, ideal for both students and lay readers. Weaving together philosophical analysis and narrative, Cuomo develops positions that resonate in a world where all …
Recognition, Responsibility, and Rights
Feminist Ethics and Social Theory
Av Robin N. Fiore, Hilde Lindemann Nelson
Häftad, 2002
618 kr
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In the words of Catharine MacKinnon, "a woman is not yet a name for a way of being human." In other words, women are still excluded, as authors and agents, from identifying what it is to be human and what therefore violates the dignity and integrity of humans. Recognition, Responsibility, and …
Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes
Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions
Inbunden, 2003
1853 kr
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María Lugones, one of the premiere figures in feminist philosophy, has at last collected some of her most famous essays, as well as some lesser-known gems, into her first book, Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes. A deeply original essayist, Lugones writes from her own perspective as an inhabitant of a number …
Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes
Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions
Häftad, 2003
717 kr
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María Lugones, one of the premiere figures in feminist philosophy, has at last collected some of her most famous essays, as well as some lesser-known gems, into her first book, Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes. A deeply original essayist, Lugones writes from her own perspective as an inhabitant of a number …
Connected Lives
Human Nature and an Ethics of Care
Inbunden, 2004
1853 kr
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Connected Lives examines the account of human nature that is implicit in an ethics of care, a picture of human lives that emphasizes interdependency, embodiment, and social connectedness. The book makes important connections to the picture of human life found in theorists of love such as St. …
Connected Lives
Human Nature and an Ethics of Care
Häftad, 2004
618 kr
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Connected Lives examines the account of human nature that is implicit in an ethics of care, a picture of human lives that emphasizes interdependency, embodiment, and social connectedness. The book makes important connections to the picture of human life found in theorists of love such as St. …
Relational Remembering
Rethinking the Memory Wars
Av Sue Campbell
Inbunden, 2003
1801 kr
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Tracing the impact of the "memory wars" on science and culture, Relational Remembering offers a vigorous philosophical challenge to the contemporary skepticism about memory that is their legacy. Campbell's work provides a close conceptual analysis of the strategies used to challenge women's …
Relational Remembering
Rethinking the Memory Wars
Av Sue Campbell
Häftad, 2003
600 kr
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Tracing the impact of the "memory wars" on science and culture, Relational Remembering offers a vigorous philosophical challenge to the contemporary skepticism about memory that is their legacy. Campbell's work provides a close conceptual analysis of the strategies used to challenge women's …
Other Within
Ethics, Politics, and the Body in Simone de Beauvoir
Inbunden, 2004
1711 kr
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In The Other Within, Fredrika Scarth offers a reading of The Second Sex as an ethical text, driven by Beauvoir's preoccupation with what possibilities have been closed off to women by patriarchal structures, oppression and inequality. Scarth offers a unique and enlightening study of Beauvoir's …
Other Within
Ethics, Politics, and the Body in Simone de Beauvoir
Häftad, 2004
603 kr
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In The Other Within, Fredrika Scarth offers a reading of The Second Sex as an ethical text, driven by Beauvoir's preoccupation with what possibilities have been closed off to women by patriarchal structures, oppression and inequality. Scarth offers a unique and enlightening study of Beauvoir's …
Moral Psychology
Feminist Ethics and Social Theory
Av Peggy DesAutels, Margaret Urban Walker
Häftad, 2004
618 kr
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Moral psychology studies the features of cognition, judgement, perception, and emotion that make human beings capable of moral action. Perspectives from feminist and race theory immensely enrich moral psychology. Writers who take these perspectives ask questions about mind, feeling, and action in …
Feminist Interventions in Ethics and Politics
Feminist Ethics and Social Theory
Av Barbara S. Andrew, Jean Keller m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
1853 kr
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This collection breaks new ground in four key areas of feminist social thought: the sex/gender debates; challenges to liberalism/equality; feminist ethics; and feminist perspectives on global ethics and politics in the 21st century. Altogether, the essays provide an innovative look at feminist …
Feminist Interventions in Ethics and Politics
Feminist Ethics and Social Theory
Av Barbara S. Andrew, Jean Keller m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
717 kr
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This collection breaks new ground in four key areas of feminist social thought: the sex/gender debates; challenges to liberalism/equality; feminist ethics; and feminist perspectives on global ethics and politics in the 21st century. Altogether, the essays provide an innovative look at feminist …
Between Women and Generations
Legacies of Dignity
Häftad, 2005
603 kr
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Before Drucilla Cornell's mother died, she asked her daughter to write a book, "that would bear witness to the dignity of her death" and that "her bridge class would be able to understand." Shortly thereafter, Cornell's mother, who had degenerative disease, decided to claim her right to die. …
Socializing Care
Feminist Ethics and Public Issues
Av Maurice Hamington, Dorothy C. Miller
Inbunden, 2006
1569 kr
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Criticism is often levied that care ethics is too narrow in scope and fails to extend to issues of social justice. Socializing Care attempts to dispel that criticism. Contributors to the volume demonstrate how the ethics of care factors into a variety of social policies and institutions, and can …
Socializing Care
Feminist Ethics and Public Issues
Av Maurice Hamington, Dorothy C. Miller
Häftad, 2006
618 kr
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Criticism is often levied that care ethics is too narrow in scope and fails to extend to issues of social justice. Socializing Care attempts to dispel that criticism. Contributors to the volume demonstrate how the ethics of care factors into a variety of social policies and institutions, and can …
Disability Bioethics
Moral Bodies, Moral Difference
Inbunden, 2008
1285 kr
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Jackie Leach Scully argues that bioethics cannot avoid the task of considering the moral meaning of disability in humans - beyond simply regulating reproductive choices or new areas of biomedical research. By focusing on the experiential and empirical reality of impairment, and drawing on recent …
Global Feminist Ethics
Av Rebecca Whisnant, Peggy DesAutels
Inbunden, 2007
1569 kr
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This volume is fourth in the series of annuals created under the auspices of The Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST). It includes papers by philosophers offering cutting-edge feminist perspectives on ethical issues of global and transnational significance. Feminist approaches …
Global Feminist Ethics
Av Rebecca Whisnant, Peggy DesAutels
Häftad, 2010
603 kr
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This volume is fourth in the series of annuals created under the auspices of The Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST). It includes papers by philosophers offering cutting-edge feminist perspectives on ethical issues of global and transnational significance. Feminist approaches …
Being Yourself
Essays on Identity, Action, and Social Life
E-bok, 2004
667 kr
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Being yourself: living a life that is truly your own, that expresses your unique personality and your distinctive values. Many people want to live such a life. Being Yourself asks what it takes to do so. It examines questions about the self - the individual who acts - together with questions about …
Disability Bioethics
Moral Bodies, Moral Difference
E-bok, 2008
1403 kr
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Jackie Leach Scully argues that bioethics cannot avoid the task of considering the moral meaning of disability in humans - beyond simply regulating reproductive choices or new areas of biomedical research. By focusing on the experiential and empirical reality of impairment, and drawing on recent …
How Can I Be Trusted?
A Virtue Theory of Trustworthiness
E-bok, 2002
636 kr
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This work examines the concept of trust in the light of virtue theory, and takes our responsibility to be trustworthy as central. Rather than thinking of trust as risk-taking, Potter views it as equally a matter of responsibility-taking. How Can I Be Trusted? illustrates that relations of trust are …
